The document outlines the team and process behind ECU Group plc's global macro and FX management services, listing the chief investment officer, heads of research, trading, and economic advisors who specialize in areas like quantitative modeling, central banking policy, and emerging markets like China. It also briefly describes the products and services ECU provides related to fulfilling client needs in an evolving investment world through global macro advisory, corporate FX solutions, and expert consultancy.

1. Global Macro
Fulfilling client needs in an ever evolving investment world

2. Team
Michael Petley
Chief Investment Officer
Stephen Jen
Head of Global Macro Research
Stephen Jen is
managing partner of SLJ Macro Partners LLP
one of the three investment managers
of ECU's Institutional Global Macro and Active FX Overlay
Strategies, specialising in global macroeconomic policy. From
2009 to 2011, Stephen was MD of Macroeconomics & Currencies
at Bluegold Capital. Previously, Stephen was with Morgan Stanley
for 12 years, latterly as Global Head of Currency Research
spent four
years as an economist with the IMF
Fatih Yilmaz
Head of Quantitative Research
Fatih Yilmaz is a
founding partner of SLJ Macro Partners LLP
one of the three investment managers of
ECU's Institutional Global Macro and Active FX Overlay Strategies,
specialising in quantitative modelling. After his MA and PhD
studies in Finance and Econometrics, Fatih was Assistant Professor
of Finance at Exeter. Previous roles include Currency Economist at
Morgan Stanley, Chief European Currency Strategist and Head of
Institutional Quant at Bank of America and Director of Quantitative
Research and Trading at Bluegold Capital.
Neil Staines
Head of Trading & Execution
Neil Staines is ECU's Head of Trading & Execution. was
formerly co-founder & Head of Investment at 3D Currency
Management. Previously, Neil worked at RBS Global Banking &
Markets, latterly as Head of FX Proprietary Trading.
Neil and his team are responsible for the
monitoring of
all ECU's trading programmes and strategies.

3. George Magnus
Senior Economic Adviser
Neil MacKinnon
Global Macro Strategy Adviser
Professor Charles Goodhart, CBE
Economic & Central Bank Policy Adviser
Professor Charles Goodhart CBE is a member of ECU's Global
Macro , specialising in global Central
Bank Policy. Charles worked at the Bank of England for 17 years
as a monetary adviser, becoming a Chief Adviser in 1980. A
former member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy
Committee, Charles is Emeritus Professor of Banking & Finance
at the London School of Economics and a Senior Economic
Consultant for Morgan Stanley.
Kit Juckes
Senior FX & Fixed Income Adviser
Kit Juckes
and Head of FX Strategy at Société
Générale. Kit has over 25 years’experience having commenced
his career in 1985 with Money Market Services. His former roles
include Chief

4. S
Robin Griffiths
Chief Technical Strategist
Robin Griffiths i
Chief Technical Strategist at ECU,
a role he previously performed at HSBC Investment Bank for 20
years Head of Global Asset Allocation at
Rathbones, and then a director and technical strategist for
Cazenove Capital Management. Robin was a Partner of WI Carr
and Head of Technical Analysis at Grieveson Grant. Robin has
been a member of ECU's Global Macro Team for years.
Monica Wang
t

5. S
Simon Hunt
Strategic Adviser – China & SE Asia
Simon
, specialising in China and some of the
major industrial commodity markets, notably copper. In 1975,
Simon Hunt founded Brook Hunt, a market leading provider of
market analysis across the metals and mining markets (now part
of Wood Mackenzie). In 1996, Simon left Brook Hunt to form
Simon Hunt Strategic Services which provides global economic
research services. Simon has spent 2-3 months a year for over 20
years visiting factories across China and has an office in Beijing.
Joana Freire
alyst
With a focus on
emerging markets, Joana
as part of the Financial
Markets Research team at the investment banking division of
Millennium bcp, in Lisbon, where she was responsible for the
macroeconomic outlook and publications for China and Brazil,
as well as for the medium term forecasts for currencies. Joana
holds an MSc Economics degree from the London School of
Economics and an undergraduate degree in Economics from
the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

6. Process

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